An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.
James Joyce
Ulysses
On the ceiling and the proscenium were some cracked nymphs and peeling cupids.
J. B. Priestley
The Good Companions